South African municipalities are essential to the JET, yet they remain marginal recipients of climate finance. As electricity distributors, infrastructure managers, and the primary point of contact between communities and the state, municipalities are indispensable to delivering climate resilience and renewable energy at the local level. Yet despite their critical role, South African municipalities receive less than 10% of tracked climate finance—constrained by weak creditworthiness, limited technical capacity, policy misalignment between national and local governments, and funding mechanisms that were not designed with local government in mind.Read More